The number of city districts per region varies between a minimum of two and a high of 21 in Donetsk Oblast.

[1] The status of Kyiv city is defined by the law Про столицю України - місто-герой Київ (transl.

[3] Since 18 March 2014, due to the Russian annexation of Crimea, the urban districts of Sevastopol and Simferopol have been controlled by Russia.

[5] As of 30 September 2022, Russia officially claims the formerly-separatist controlled urban districts in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as part of its administrative divisions in addition to urban districts located in other cities occupied by Russia since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

[6] Before February 2016, many districts were named for people, places, events, and organizations associated with the Soviet Union and Russian Empire; many were renamed since to comply with decommunization and derussification laws.